Thread by @UR_Ninja

This past October in Lützerath, Germany around 5000 people participated in a “un-evictable festival", which featured a week of actions, talks, music and other events to disrupt and halt planned coal mine expansion by German energy giant RWE AG.
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Around 600 activists from a direct action group called #EndeGelände rushed a police line blocking access to the edge of the open-pit mine in #Germany last month calling attention to the destruction of villages & the furthering of the #ClimateCrisis. vimeo.com/643470714

#Germany: Tree houses built by squatters at Lützerath are seen to emulate the forest protection at Hambach Forest, about 15 miles from Lützerath at a similar brown coal mine site.

See our 2019 special on the struggle to save Hambach Forest:

#Germany: Lützerath – sometimes referred to, collectively along with other neighboring resistance sites, as #ZAD Rhineland (“Zones to Defend” Rhineland) – was set to be destroyed for the expansion of a sprawling open-pit coal mine of about 30 square miles, called Garzweiler II.

Lützerath itself comes from the name of a village in the original location of the first mine, destroyed in 2003 along with 20 other villages. Since as early as the 1960s, dozens of towns have been bulldozed here and in other parts of Germany to make way for similar coal mines.

Climate activists are continuing direct actions in attempts to save villages & halt coal mine expansion in #Germany.

New video & article by @kianseararey: unicornriot.ninja/2021/climate-a…